> > This at least means that the infrastructure is usable _now_ which is
> > starting to become very, very, important. If persistance becomes vital
> > it can be introduced by using cookies at the web service level in the
> > short term, before moving to a full Grid-enabled service (although
> > perhaps still allowing simpler queries to the service to be via a
> > pure-SOAP call?).
>
> I'm not familiar with "SOAP cookies". I know of the WS-Context standard,
> which is what Parastatidis et al. recommend as (part of) the alternative
> to OGSI; are they the same?
Sorry, I was talking about using the HTTP cookie jar to carry state information between SOAP calls, much like I do here...
http://www.astro.ex.ac.uk/estar/software/cookie_daemon.tar.gz
although WS-Context is probably a better way of going about things as its not transport layer specific... ;)
Cheers,
Al.
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Dr. A. Allan, School of Physics, University of Exeter
Received on 2003-10-06Z08:43:19